Dan and Naphtali
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob. Job 5:2Gen 29:31Gen 37:111Co 3:32Co 7:10Pro 14:30Jas 3:14Jas 4:5
Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?” Gen 16:22Ki 5:7Psa 127:31Sa 1:5Gen 31:36Gen 50:191Sa 2:5-6Eph 4:26
Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, 1 so that through her I too can build a family.” Gen 50:23Job 3:12Gen 16:2-3Gen 30:9Rut 4:11
So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her, Gen 35:222Sa 12:11Gen 16:3-4Gen 21:10Gen 22:24Gen 25:1Gen 25:6Gen 33:2 and Bilhah conceived and bore him a son. Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; He has heard my plea and given me a son.” So she named him Dan. 2 Lam 3:59Psa 35:24Psa 43:1Gen 49:16-17Deu 33:22Gen 29:32-35Gen 35:25Gen 46:23
And Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali. 3 Gen 32:24-25Gen 23:6Gen 49:21Mat 4:131Sa 14:15Deu 33:23Exo 9:28Gen 35:25
Gad and Asher
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife. Gen 30:4Gen 16:3Gen 29:35Gen 30:17 And Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son. Then Leah said, “How fortunate!” 4 So she named him Gad. 5 Gen 49:19Deu 33:20-21Gen 35:26Gen 46:16Isa 65:11
When Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son, Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher. 6 Luk 1:48Gen 35:26Gen 49:20Pro 31:28Sng 6:9Deu 33:24-25Gen 46:17
Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” Sng 7:13Gen 25:30
But Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes as well?” Num 16:131Co 4:3Ezk 16:47Isa 7:13Num 16:9-10
“Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.
Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah
And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore a fifth son to Jacob. 1Sa 1:201Sa 1:26-27Exo 3:7Gen 30:22Gen 30:6Luk 1:13 Then Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my maidservant to my husband.” So she named him Issachar. 7 1Ch 12:32Deu 33:18Gen 35:23Gen 46:13Gen 49:14-15
Again Leah conceived and bore a sixth son to Jacob. “God has given me a good gift,” she said. “This time my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons.” And she named him Zebulun. 8 Gen 35:23Gen 49:13Mat 4:13Gen 46:14Jdg 4:10Jdg 5:14Psa 68:27Gen 29:34
After that, Leah gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah. Gen 34:1-3Gen 34:26Gen 46:15
Joseph
Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb, Gen 29:31Psa 113:91Sa 1:19-20Gen 21:1-2Gen 25:21Gen 8:1Psa 127:3Gen 30:2 and she conceived and gave birth to a son. “God has taken away my shame,” she said. Luk 1:25Gen 29:31Luk 1:271Sa 1:5-6Isa 4:1Luk 1:21 She named him Joseph, 9 and said, “May the LORD add to me another son.” Gen 35:24Gen 49:22-26Gen 37:2Rev 7:8Deu 33:13-17Gen 35:17-18Gen 39:1-23Gen 42:6
Jacob Prospers
Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland. Gen 24:54Gen 24:56Act 7:4-5Gen 18:33Gen 24:6-7Gen 26:3Gen 28:13Gen 28:15 Give me my wives and children for whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard I have worked for you.” Gen 29:30Hos 12:12Gen 29:19-20Gen 31:26Gen 31:31Gen 31:38-41Gen 31:6Gen 30:29-30
But Laban replied, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.” Act 7:10Gen 26:24Isa 61:9Rut 2:13Exo 3:21Gen 12:3Gen 39:2-5Gen 39:21-23 And he added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.” Gen 29:15Gen 29:19
Then Jacob answered, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock have thrived under my care. Gen 31:6Gen 31:38-401Pe 2:181Pe 2:15Col 3:22-25Eph 6:5-8Gen 30:5Mat 24:45 Indeed, you had very little before my arrival, but now your wealth has increased many times over. The LORD has blessed you wherever I set foot. But now, when may I also provide for my own household?” 1Ti 5:82Co 12:14Deu 11:10
“What can I give you?” Laban asked. 2Sa 21:4-6Heb 13:5Psa 118:8
“You do not need to give me anything,” Jacob replied. “If you do this one thing for me, I will keep on shepherding and keeping your flocks. Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages. Gen 31:8Gen 31:10Gen 30:35 So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.” 1Sa 26:232Sa 22:21Exo 13:14Gen 31:37Isa 59:12Psa 37:6
“Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.” 1Co 14:51Co 7:7Gal 5:12Num 22:29
That very day Laban removed all the streaked or spotted male goats and every speckled or spotted female goat—every one that had any white on it—and every dark-colored lamb, and he placed them under the care of his sons. Gen 31:9 Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flocks.
Jacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches. Ezk 31:8Gen 31:9-13 Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink, they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted. Exo 12:35-36Gen 31:38Gen 31:40Gen 31:42Gen 31:9-12 Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.
Whenever the stronger females of the flock were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs, in full view of the animals, so that they would breed in front of the branches. But if the animals were weak, he did not set out the branches. So the weaker animals went to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.
Thus Jacob became exceedingly prosperous. He owned large flocks, maidservants and menservants, and camels and donkeys. Gen 24:35Gen 26:13-14Gen 30:30Gen 13:2Ecc 2:7Gen 12:16Gen 28:15Gen 32:10